Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Willa Cather
Charting Oct 12, 1931 → Dec 19, 1948 · 36 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
19311948Longest reign 4 weeks (Aug–Sep 1935) · First crown Aug 1935
- Peak Power
- 7.59%
- week of Sep 30, 1935
- Career Power
- 314
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 4
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 123
- October 1934 – October 1935
- Peak Five Years
- 167
- October 1931 – November 1936
- Top-five weeks
- 23
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 36
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Aug 12, 1935
- Comebacks
- 2
- Aug 1935 · Dec 1940, after 5 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
5 books · 314 share-weeks of Career Power
Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucy Gayheart | #1 | 11 | 123.1 | ||
| Sapphira and the Slave Girl | #3 | 12 | 115.2 | ||
| Obscure Destinies | #2 | 3 | 34.7 | ||
| The Old Beauty and Others | #8 | 9 | 31.6 | ||
| Shadows on the Rock | #4 | 1 | 9.6 |
At their peak
1934 in books →Willa Cather's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1934 to October 1935. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Hilton420
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas329
- 3Thomas Wolfe267
- 4Franz Werfel244
- 5Stark Young168
- 6Humphrey Cobb168
- 7Edna Ferber156
- 8Thornton Wilder148
- 9Mazo de la Roche143
- 10Rachel Field134
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.